Wheels.12

"Idle" Chatter

I thought this might be the place for conversation that really
doesn't fit into other topics and doesn't need a spot of its own...
I picked up the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution today. Holy f**k. We
can't get them here in Canada, since they don't meet bumper
standards.
I consider it a major coup that I got it home with my license intact.

Yes. And 250hp. And a turbo. Woo hoo!
I'm going to take it up to the spot where all the tuner crowd hangs
around; I hope they're out tonight. I think it's going to be
hilarious for this Holy Grail car to pull up, and a gray-haired
older woman driving it...

It's a screamer, all right. I put 152 miles on it today.
When I first got it, I took it from the office, turned the corner,
headed up the street. Through the gears in nothing flat. Looked at
the speedo. Thought, "Hmm, all that noise and fuss for just 80
km/hr?" Then I remembered that it's an American car, and that's 80
MILES per hour.
It's smooth as silk at 100 mph. And that turbo whine is the sweetest
sound on the planet.

No wonder is my son's favorite car. BTW he has been accepted
to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena to study
Transportation Design, his passion since a little child.
I also wanted to mention that the Honda Civic was reviewed as
the most economic car. I am proud to own one and not a SUV.

If they didn't include hybrids, then the Civic HX may be the
non-hybrid with the highest MPG, although it really isn't all that
high, IMO: in the low thirties for city, high thirties for highway,
IIRC.